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Patriot Act Block

The AP (via CNN) is reporting that "U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero struck down a provision of the Patriot Act that authorizes the FBI to force Internet…

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Yowza

Part of everyone's favorite Patriot Act was struck down today, namely the part about the FBI access to what should be confidential communications records. […

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Quantum crypto, up and running

So I guess the Swiss have an operational data archiving network utilizing quantum cryptography for security. For those who have not followed the crypto revoluti…

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First Post - my iPod

So today I won a prize. A mini-iPod. It is quite the toy, however, I run this strange, mystical operating system called Linux, that Apple seems to pretend doesn…

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"E-voting and the Upcoming Election"

BayFF Event - "E-voting and the Upcoming Election" on Tuesday, October 12 at 7pm Sometimes activism can be fun. Come join EFF at the 111 Minna Galler…

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interesting story abour Hemingway

LibraryLaw Blog: Locking up Hemingway about unpublished short story from 1924 not being able to be pub b/c of lit  executors + CTEA.…

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new posts

still have tech problems -- new posts at http://academiccopyright.typepad.com on duration (charts that are helpful) and more on the MT papers and the unpublishe…

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Child identity token from VeriSign

Surprised this hasn't gotten more coverage. VeriSign has just announced a new USB key that they claim will assist in identifying children online. This kind…

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Haldar, Symmetric Trust

Vivek Haldar & Michael Franz, Symmetric Behavior-Based Trust: A New Paradigm for Internet Computing, in: Marceau & Foley (eds.), New Security Paradigms…